Collaboration Deserves a KPI of Its Own (Series#12) In today’s results-driven world, impact measurement has become a cornerstone of project management—especially in development aid and CSR initiatives. KPIs are everywhere. They help us track progress, justify funding, and demonstrate accountability. But here’s the catch: when we focus solely on fulfilling KPIs, we risk missing the…
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Series #8: What 10 Years of Working with Local NGOs in India and Kenya Taught Me About Purpose—What’s Your Take?
For over a decade, I’ve had the privilege of working in a corporate environment while collaborating with local NGOs in India and Kenya—a journey that has been nothing short of transformative. It was profoundly eye-opening, not just for the professional opportunities it unlocked, but for the personal growth it sparked. Through this experience, I learned…
Exposure to Other Realities: A Key to Growth and Bridging Inequality
Series #1: Exposure to other realities is not a luxury—it’s essential for growth, development, and innovation. And it’s a powerful tool for bridging the gap between rich and poor! In the past weeks, I’ve shared insights from our colleagues and leaders , managers from different countries, who visited the System Changer Network India, engaging with…
Child safety – an uncovered topic in Kenya. Soon we start a pilot project to change safety awareness
Children safety and safety prevention for children is still a very neglected and uncovered topic for Kenyan’s children. Trafficking, children that disappear – the number of missed children is high. Many of them are not even registered officially. In case of missing a child it is nearly impossible to find any trace… With a new program that we run together with the organization „ missing Child Kenya“ and the county police department we now want to raise more safety awareness – for children and parents.
A trainings center based on care and love
It’s nearly a year now that- under the umbrella of the Making More Health initiative – the first constructions for the MMH center have started. A training hall, a production room, first sanitation facilities are in place. Actually, together with the local communities and our local NGO partner we finalize the furnishing and prepare the…
When good things start to spread outside our own networks and affects other communities … then impact starts
The NGO V.I.C.C.O in Mukuru slums is one of the NGOs that stays in the neighborhood of one of our official partner organizations and while knowing about the activities they started to connect. This is fantastic – because together we can make even more impact happen. Why not sharing materials to all where possible and…
Partnering and a beauty salon in the slums contributing to sustainability
Sometimes just sitting together and exchanging experiences from NGO and Business backgrounds is really helpful. If we start working together not only in and for concrete projects with the target groups, but exchange knowledge also on our daily challenges, it creates a lot of impact – and a win to everyone. That’s what happened two…
Go Kenya, go future! 